First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 8th 2021

As crickety-cricket returns to terrestrial television in yet another exciting new format, episode forty-four of VISION ON SOUND finds SANDY McGREGOR returning for a nostalgic ramble through our memories of watching cricket on television in our youth.

Regular listeners will no doubt expect an hour of total silence given my usual response to anything sport-related, but, happily for non-cricket fans, it's Sandy & I, so we rarely stick to the point for too long, so it's an enjoyable nostalgic chat mentioning highland games & caber tossing, Peter Davison's influence on this strange fascination, a school reunion, the strange combination of cigarette advertising and sport, the BBC's TEST MATCH SPECIAL on the radio, pre-second-world-war sports coverage, fielding positions, a weird fascination of numbers & statistics, Charters & Caldicott, Peter West & Tony Lewis, the poetry of the commentary of John Arlott, the legend of Ritchie Benaud, the eclectic career of Fred Trueman, the development of television graphics, and how people of a certain age followed overseas tours.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

(2025 re-edit removes "Soul Limbo" and "Mambo No. 5" - sigh!)